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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1940

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Brake On In The Far East

KRUPPS GETS IT AGAIN

The Krupps works at Essen, aluminium works at Grevenbroich and an oil

plant storage

at Cologne were the princi- pal targets of the RAF. Bomber Command in at- Wednesday

tacks night:

on

Other places visited by the RAF, were Rotterdam, Amster- dam, Flushing, Le Havre and Calais, and rall communications in Germany and Holland.

PILOT WHO SHOT DOWN

15 IN 19 DAYS

Among awards an- nounced to R.A.F. pilots by the Air Ministry yesterday is a bar to the D.F.C. for Pilot Officer Eric Stanley Lock, who in 19 days destroyed 15 enemy aircraft.

Last month, while engaged on patrol over the Dover area, he engaged large forces of enemy and shot down two.-Reu- ter.

- After ten minutes bombard | $00 ment of the Krupps works, Asays

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the Air Ministry news aluminium works at Grevenbroich -service,-two-large- tires broke and also on a foundry-and-factory.

out in the factory area. In the meantime tons of high explosives and hundreds of fire bombs had been dropped on the

in the same area. The attacks here lasted two hours and explo- 'sions and fires were seen at the

factory. Reuter.

PUPPET MAYOR

OF SHANGHAI

MURDERED

MAYOR FU SIAO-EN, OF THE JAPANESE-

SURVEY OF

SUPERB

AXIS POLICY MATSUOKA

ANALYSING AXIS POLICY FROM THE BALKANS TO THE FAR EAST, REUTER'S DI- PLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT SAYS THAT THE REPORT THAT GENERAL KEITEL WAS GOING TO SUCCEED MARSHAL GRAZIANI ATTRACTED CONSIDERABLE ATTENTION IN SOME QUARTERS IN LONDON YESTERDAY.

The report was soon denied both from Rome and Berlin and was probably put into circulation to discredit. British newspapers which published it.

This is a familiar method of Axis propaganda but such ru-- mours are also typical of ɖhe. smoke screen which the Axis puts up to conceal its real purpose and: objectives.

FUNDS

FROZEN

CASUISTRY

The Foreign Minister, Mr. Matsuoka, yesterday criticised the British ac- tion in reopening the Burma Road as in contra-

diction to. Britain's ex- pressed wish of restoring peace in East Asia.

"If the British Government- really wish, as they profess, to see peace restored in East: Asia: as quickly as possible, I have to con- fess that it is past my compre- hension how the British Govern- ment could hope to contribute to the realisation of such a wish by President Roosevelt has re-opening the Burma Road which "frozen" Rumanian funds

in will have the effect of encourag- the United States by extending ing Chiang Kai-shek." quickly as first reports alleged applied to nine European

the Order which was previously but there is little doubt in

First reports of the movement- of German troops for the occupa- tion of Rumania were similarly much exaggerated.

Events are not moving 23

na-

"knowledgable quarters in Lon-tions who are countries occupied don of Germany's ultimate in either by Germany: or Russia,

It is unofficially estimated

tentions.

There is no confirmation that any German troops have passed through Hungary and any troops transported in Danube barges cannot have been very numerous.

Eyes On Soviet

Germany is expected to watch Soviet reactions very carefully before undertaking the large-scale occupation of Rumania.

Then the screw would be applied to Yugoslavia and Bul- garia, and this may be a slow process.

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There is not likely to be repetition of a coup de force like In Denmark and Norway.

News from the Far East not unsatisfactory to the De- mocracies.

is

in

Washington that the funds total roughly $100,000,000-Reuter.

Mr. Matsuoka followed the newest line of argument, and Insisted that the Tripartite Military Alliance between Tokyo and the Axis Powers was not directed against the United States but whea "peace pact!”

He added that the signatories TRAWLER SUNK -

earnestly wished the. United The British trawler, Kingston| States and all other nations at Sapphire, has been lost by U-boat present neutral would not become action and the majority of the involved in the European War or crew landed, according to an come into conflict with Japan be- Admiralty announcement. Reu- cause of the China Incident:- ter.

Reuter:

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Fu

was killed at 5). o'clock this morning while asleep in his house in Hongkew.

were

Japanese troops, says Reuter, converted the whole portion of the Settlement under their con trol into an armed camp.

Cordons and barricades erected at every important street corner while all approaches to the main body of the Internation- al Settlement were barricaded off so that only one person was able to pass at a time. These were subjected to rigorous, search.

Jugular Vein Cut

Mrs. Fu waa in the room when the assassination occur- red but did not wake till was all over.

Servant Suspected The Japanese believe that the assassin was Fu's personal ser- vant who had been with him since 1027, when Fu was an exile in Manchuria.

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ANOTHER WINSTON

CHURCHILL ́

The servant,'« named - Zung Truen, had a private house in Later it was revealed that Nanking Road but when the po- Fu was not shot but died after lice raided it this morning they Mrs, Randolph Churchill, wife his jugular vein had" boon cut found Zung had moved three of the only son of the Prime by the assassin.

w weeks ago.).

Minister, gave birth to a son yes- Twenty guards, Japanese

and

Havas says Mayor Fu's house la terday. The boy, the Prime Min- Chinese, were on duty at the time in Scott Road, near the Public ister's third grandchild; is to be and they are now being ques- School, and within the Japanose christened Winston-British Wire- tioned by Japanese : Investigators, defence sector.

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